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Hi everyone, I'm new here and not exactly sure where to post this.

I'm building a photo gallery web site at work to showcase the photos of the personnel on our project. I used a CSS design template that came with Dreamweaver, and it includes a simple search box in the navigation sidebar.

I'd like viewers to be able to type a person's name (first, last, or any part) in the box to find the person within the site if they so choose. It won't need "advanced search", just a simple one-box form.

I have a few questions to get started:
1. What is the current standard tool or scripting language for this?
2. Is there a template somewhere to copy/paste into a file?
3. Do I save that file in the home directory?

Thank you, Grayson. Using PHP & MySQL, would they be easy to maintain? As people move around and leave the organization, their photo would move to another section of the site. Therefore, would I also need to modify the database as these changes occur?